Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1920 — SOME LATE CENSUS FIGURES [ARTICLE]

SOME LATE CENSUS FIGURES

Lafayette Gains 2,375 in Last Decade —lncrease of 11.8 Per Cent. Among the late census given out within the past few days are the following: Danville, 111., 33,750, an increase of 5,879, or 21.1%; Lafayette, Ind., 22,456, an increase of 2,375, or 11.8%; Binghamton, N. Y., 66,800, an increase of 19,357, or 37.9%; Oak Park, 111., 39,380, an increase of 20,386, or 104.8%; Mattoon, 111., 13,440, increase 1,993, or 17.4%; Newport, Ky., 29,317, decrease 992, of 3.3%; Amarillo, Tex., 15,494, increase 5,537, or 55.6%; Mitchell, S. D., 8,478, increase 1,963, or 40.1%; Madison, S. D., 4,144, increase 1,007, or 32.1%; Creston, la., 8,034, increase 1,110, or 16.0%; Stevens Point, Wis., 11,370, increase 2,678, or 30.8 %; Eldorado, Kan., 10,995, increase, 7,866, or 251.4%; Milwaukee, 457,147, Increase 83,290, or 22.3%; Moline, 111., 30,709, increase 6,510, or 26.9%; Wausau, Wis., 18,661, increase 2,101, or 12.7 %; Moberly, Mo., 12,789, increase 1,866, or 17.1%; Oswego, N. Y„ 23,626, increase, 258, or 1.1 % ; Charlottesville, Va., 10,688, increase 3,923, or 38%; Port Jervis, N. Y., 10,171, increase 607, or 6.3%; Beacon, N. Y., 10,996, increase 367, or 3.5% over the 1910 combined populations of Fishkill Landing and Matteawan, which were incorporated as the city of Beacon in 1913. Milwaukee is the fifth big city

the population of which for 1920 has been announced. It ranked twelfth in 1910 with 373,857, an Increase of 31 % over 1900. Cincinnati, Milwaukee’s nearest rival in 1910, returned a population of 401,158 for 1920, an increase of 10.3% over 1910. Washington passed Cincinnati in this census with a population of 437,414, an increase of 32.1%. From tihe first days of the war Marshal Foch always carried a dapper stick with him. There is an interesting story connected with the car.ie Uhat the head of the allied armies regarded so necessary. “It was carved for him in the early days of the war by one of his beloved poilus of tihe trenches,’’ says the-.'Home Sector, the ex-soldiers’ weekly, "since which time, if reports are true, it has never left his side. It has made Itself useful an well as ornamental on occasions, and there is a legend that it was used to map out the great strokes and counter-strokes of the summer and fall of 1918 by which the war was ended.’’